Pholidota recurva Lindl

Description:  Found in the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam in open primary forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with swollen, slender, rugose with age pseudobulbs carrying 2, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute, plicate, 3 to 4 veined, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a synanthous, 24 to 35 flowered, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with distichous, transversly semi-elliptic, oblique floral bracts.

Photorights: C.Jancloes

• Size:  Pseudobulbs cylindrical , 4-ribbed , fleshy , superposed, 3 - 5 . 5 cm long , 0 . 6 cm in diameter ., with 2 terminal leaves . Leaves 2 , full developed at anthesis, obovate to oblong, 4 - 7 cm long , 1 - 2 cm wide ; petiole 0 . 5 cm long . Inflorescence synanthous, 20 - 30-flowered , peduncle 2 cm long , rachis down curved ; floral bracts distichous, brown , 4 - 6 mm long, 6 - 8 mm
• Collector/Witnesses:  Marpha Telepova Texier
• Year Collected:  2012
• Growing Media:  wood/pot
• Flowering Period:  august - september
• Color:  sepals and petals are white with tinted orange lip at the end.
• Water:  1 – 2 time daily
• Light:  medium – full sunlight
• Temperature:  10 - 32°C